Focus Quotes

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.

Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

I need a focus group like I need a hole in my head.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

I don't really have a focus, I just make music.

We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.

Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.

My teammates, they keep you focused.

I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.